Nutritional studies on dietary cumin for improving production and physiological characteristics in growing rabbits in Egypt and Morocco / Mostafa Abdellatif Ragab Mousa Barakat ; Supervised Hassan Mohamed Sobhi , Mohmed Ahmed Fouad Elmanylawi , Osama Galal Saker

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of African Postgraduate Studies - Department of Natural Resources

The present study aimed to examine the impacts of the enrichment of cuminumcyminum seed powder to rabbit diets on growth promoters, carcass, hematological parameters, blood serum constituents and caecum microbial counts of V-line rabbits. Sixty weaned V-line rabbits were divided randomly into three groups in a completely randomized experiment using different quantities of cumin seed powder diets (0.5% and 1%), in addition to the control group. The obtained results revealed insignificant differences in Average body weight (AV.BW) and body weight gain (BWG) among the different tested experimental rabbit groups. The rabbit groups fed diets supplemented with 0.5 or 1% cumin had better values of feed conversion ratio (FCR) than the control group during most experimental periods. Feeding rabbits on 0.5% or 1% cumin seed diets achieved better values of total revenue, economical efficiency and the relative economical efficiency than the control group. It has been observed that total protein values were insignificantly higher in rabbits treated with cumin 0.5% than others treated with 1% or 0% cumin in the diets. The same result found with serum albumin values while serum globulin values were slightly different as compared with those of control group. It was clearly noticed that the serum cholesterol values of rabbits fed on diets contain cumin 0.5% and 1% were not affected compared with control group. In the terms of AST and ALT activities it was clearly noted that AST values increased non-significantly for rabbits were fed on diets contained 0.5% and 1% cumin compared with control. ALT values were not affected by any treatment compared with those of control group. Feeding rabbits diets containing 0.5% cumin seeds powder had lower (P{u2264}0.05) serum high density lipoprotein (HDL) concentration than those fed control diets or 1% cumin seeds powder diets. While rabbits fed diets incorporated with 0.5 and 1% cumin seeds powder resulted in a decrease (P{u2264}0.05) in low density lipoprotein (LDL) concentration compared to the control group

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